Will 2012 be your "career year"? In this issue we have an extraordinary line-up of authors offering you insights to help you grow your practice such as: • Why Chaotic Markets Are Your New Year’s Gift • 10 Ways to NOT Get Invited To My Next Sales Conference • The Wholesaler’s Picture
of Health • Your Career 2012: Should I Stay or Should I Go? • How To Work A Room • Creating a Currency of Trust plus a whole lot more!

Always one of our most popular issues, we present the Fall All List Issue. In this issue you'll learn about: The Wholesaler’s 10 Step Repeatable Process • 4 Ways Wholesalers Can Coach Advisors To Success • 5 Point Plan To Quickly Build Client Trust • 4 Strategies To Find Your Own Speaking Pace and The Secret to Selling Anything ---plus so much more!

In this, our First Anniversary issue of I Carry The Bag, we focus our attention on some of the Legends, Myths and Folktales of wholesaling.
Including:
Are Most of Your Assumptions About Internal Wholesalers Wrong? • 6 Ways To Make Your Internal Wholesaler’s Travel in the Field Legendary • Legends, Thoroughbreds, and Mules • No, You Can’t Have a Perfectly Balanced Life • Success at Conferences or How Not to Waste $50,000 • Fact or Fiction: Great Speakers Never Get Nervous
Plus much more!

In this Spring 2011 issue of I Carry The Bag, we are asking you to think about the way in which you brand and market yourselves as professional wholesalers and how you provide marketing assistance (beyond your expense account) to the advisors you serve.
Our articles include: Help Your Advisors Build a Marketing Masterpiece • What is Your Career Brand • Fighting Above Your Weight Class • How to Overcome Phone Call Avoidance •Zen and the Art of Wholesaling • and much much more.

In the great tradition of famous 'list' publications like National Enquirer and Cosmopolitan we bring you the All List Issue of I Carry The Bag...the official magazine of wholesaling.
In this Winter 2011 edition we have great feature stories and columns such as:
• 12 Traits of Great Leaders
• 43 Ways Wholesalers Become Great
• 34 Ways to Make COIs Love You
• 7 Ways Savvy Wholesaler Can Harness Social Media
• 30 Tips that Propel High Achievers
Plus much so more to help you get your 2011 off to a strong start.

This issue is dedicated to surviving the upcoming 2010 holiday season and to giving you tools to make the most of the 2011 business planning season.
Articles include:
•Hybrid Wholesaling – Threat, Opportunity, or Both? by kasina Consulting
• 5 Keys to Successful Business Planning
with Tim Berry, CEO, Business Plan Pro
• All I Want For Christmas is Your Job
by M2M, The Anonymous Internal
• Attn. Wholesalers: You Are Being Judged
by Peter Arethas
• Adapt or Die: The Secret of the Mega-Successful by Scott Halford
• How to Command an Audience
by Ivy Naistadt
PLUS: Kip Gregory, Kara Newman, Mary Allen, JB Bush, DeeAnne White, Kathy Freeman and so much more.

Feature story: The Great Drop-in Debate. Is the drop-in relationship suicide, or a fine skill that, once perfected, will grow your practice?
•Senior leader interview with Maryann Bruce, President of Aquila Funds Distributors.
•The first ever piece from M2M, The Anonymous Internal Wholesaler.
•Wine and food columnist Kara Newman takes the lid off of the inside secrets of sommeliers.
•Do you dream of the things you will do in your life after wholesaling? Well, DeeAnne White did too. Perhaps the main difference is she is now living her dreams.
•Every wholesaler we know, or have known, is in pursuit of some kind of work/life balance. That's why America's Inner Peace Coach Mary Allen writes for this publication.
•Our column from Kathy Freeman will be of keen interest. She is one of the top executive recruiters in the country.
•Paul Bednar is “one of us.” As a working wholesaler he knows firsthand the challenges of entertaining, traveling, and making time to stay fit. •All that plus much more.